Hi Everyone,
I am trying to read a comma-delimitted list ("aaa","bbb","ccc") from a text
file and assign those values to a list, x, such that:
x = ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc"]
The code that I have come up with looks like this:
>>> x = []
>>> f = open(r'c:\test.txt', 'r')
>>> x.extend(f.readlines())
>>> x
['"aaa","bbb","ccc"']
If you look closely, there is an extra pair of single quotes (') that
encapsulates the string. Therefore, len(x) returns 1, instead of 3. Is
there a function to "separate" this list out? I hope my question makes
sense.
Thanks in advance.
Samir
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